An
interesting mix (or at least I think so) from a trip made in spring
2012. I'd visited the Oregon coast several times before, but
usually in late summer with clear blue skies. This
year's timing involved the chance of more dramatic skies but
also the risk of rain. Needless to say it rained a lot.
And when it didn't rain it was gloomy and cold. Actually it
made for some interesting photographs - just not a great number of
them. Inevitably once we left the coast and crossed the
Cascades, the weather improved, but although two thirds of our
trip lay behind us, the photography of the Palouse, Painted Hills
and the Hood River blossom were carried out in close to ideal
conditions.

An
interesting by-product of the conditions on the coast is the high
proportion of b&w photographs. I do quite often agonise
about whether I want to show a particular scene in colour or
monochrome. Not a relevent debate in many cases in these
conditions on the coast - these photographs wanted to
be in b&w.